Astrophysics

Authors and titles for October 2000

[101] arXiv:astro-ph/0010101 [pdf, other]

Title: Sub-mm imaging of a proto-cluster region at z=3.09

S. C. Chapman, G. F. Lewis, D. Scott, E. Richards, C. Borys, C. C. Steidel, K. L. Adelberger, A. E. Shapley

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures, accepted in ApJ letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[102] arXiv:astro-ph/0010102 [pdf, other]

Title: Ages of A-type Vega-like stars from uvby$\beta$ Photometry

Inseok Song, J.-P. Caillault, David Barrado y Navascués, John R. Stauffer

Comments: 4pages text, 3 tables, 3 figures, Accepted in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[103] arXiv:astro-ph/0010103 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Mass-Donating Star in GRS 1915+105

Stephen S. Eikenberry (Cornell), Reba M. Bandyopadhyay (NRL/NRC)

Comments: 18 pages, including 2 figures; to appear in ApJ Letters

Journal-ref: Astrophys.Space Sci. 276 (2001) 39-40

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[104] arXiv:astro-ph/0010104 [pdf, other]

Title: Galaxy-QSO Correlation induced by Weak Gravitational Lensing arising from Large-Scale Structure

Antonio C.C. Guimaraes (1), Carsten van de Bruck (2), Robert H. Brandenberger (1) ((1) Brown University, Providence, (2) DAMTP, Cambridge)

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Revised version: minor changes to match publised version

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 278

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[105] arXiv:astro-ph/0010105 [pdf, other]

Title: The importance of anisotropic interstellar turbulence and molecular-cloud magnetic mirrors for galactic cosmic-ray propagation

Benjamin D. G. Chandran

Comments: 5 pages, 5 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of the International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Conference on the Astrophysics of Galactic Cosmic Rays, Bern, Switzerland, 2000

Journal-ref: Space Sci.Rev. 99 (2001) 271-280

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[106] arXiv:astro-ph/0010106 [pdf, other]

Title: Auto-Correlation Functions and Solar Cycle Predictability

Stefano Sello

Comments: 8 pages with 3 color figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)

[107] arXiv:astro-ph/0010107 [pdf, other]

Title: Charge densities above pulsar polar caps

A. Jessner, H. Lesch, T. Kunzl

Comments: 11 pages, 7 latex figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Journal-ref: Astrophysical Journal (2000)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[108] arXiv:astro-ph/0010108 [pdf, other]

Title: A New Model for the Evolution of Light Elements in an Inhomogeneous Galactic Halo

Takeru Ken Suzuki, Yuzuru Yoshii

Comments: ApJ in press, 32 pages including 8 figures (3 fiures, fig.3,5,& 7 in color)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[109] arXiv:astro-ph/0010109 [pdf, other]

Title: Superconducting Superfluids in Neutron Stars

Brandon Carter

Comments: 13 pages Latex. Contrib. to Vortices in Unconventional Superconductors and Superfluids, Dresden, March 2000, ed G. Volovik; preliminary version in proc. Cosmion-99 (Khalatnikov Festchrift), Moscow, October 1999, ed M. Yu. Khlopov

Journal-ref: Grav.Cosmol.Suppl. 6 (2000) 204-213

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[110] arXiv:astro-ph/0010110 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical Evolution of Clusters

M. Girardi, M. Mezzetti, A. Devetak (Dipartimento di Astronomia, Univ. di Trieste, Trieste, Italy)

Comments: 9 pages, 5 eps figures, to appear in Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies, edited by F. Durret & D. Gerbal

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[111] arXiv:astro-ph/0010111 [pdf, other]

Title: Evolution of globular cluster systems in elliptical galaxies. II. Power-law initial mass function

E.Vesperini (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)

Comments: 13 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.322:247,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[112] arXiv:astro-ph/0010112 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron Stars with a Stable, Light Supersymmetric Baryon

Shmuel Balberg (1), Glennys R. Farrar (2), Tsvi Piran (3) ((1) UIUC Physics, (2) NYU Physics, (3) Hebrew University, Racah Institute)

Comments: ApJL submitted, 4 pages, using emulateapj (very very minor changes to match published version

Journal-ref: Astrophys.J. 548 (2001) L179-L182

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[113] arXiv:astro-ph/0010113 [pdf, other]

Title: Planck LFI: Comparison Between Galaxy Straylight Contamination and other Systematic Effects

C. Burigana, D. Maino, K.M. Górski, N. Mandolesi, M. Bersanelli, F. Villa, L. Valenziano, B.D. Wandelt, M. Maltoni, E. Hivon

Comments: 15 pages, submitted to A&A

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys. 373 (2001) 345

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[114] arXiv:astro-ph/0010114 [pdf, other]

Title: The use of the NEXTGEN model atmospheres for cool giants in a light curve synthesis code

Jerome A. Orosz (Utrecht University, The Netherlands), Peter H. Hauschildt (University of Georgia, USA)

Comments: 18 pages, 13 figures, A&A in press. Figure 4 is a bitmapped image, see this http URL for better version

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[115] arXiv:astro-ph/0010115 [pdf, other]

Title: Euler, Hipparcos and the five dwarfs : Reconstructing star formation histories in the Local Group

David Valls-Gabaud (1), Xavier Hernandez (2), Gerry Gilmore (3) ((1) UMR CNRS 5572, Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse (2) Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze (3) Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

Comments: 12 pages, LaTeX. Published in Massive Stellar Clusters, A. Lancon & C.M. Boily (eds) ASP Conf. Series 211, pp. 270-280

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[116] arXiv:astro-ph/0010116 [pdf, other]

Title: The minor axis outflow of NGC 2146

A. Greve, N. Neininger, A. Tarchi, A. Sievers

Comments: 10 pages LaTeX, 10 ps-figures included; Accepted by A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[117] arXiv:astro-ph/0010117 [pdf, other]

Title: Forces on Dust Grains Exposed to Anisotropic Interstellar Radiation Fields

Joseph C. Weingartner, B. T. Draine

Comments: LaTeX(41 pages, 19 figures), submitted to ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[118] arXiv:astro-ph/0010118 [pdf, other]

Title: The Assembly and Evolution of Spiral Disks

Matthew Bershady (U. of Wisconsin), David Andersen (Penn State)

Comments: to appear in Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies, eds. J.G. Funes, S.J. and E.M. Corsini, ASP Conference Series; 4 pages with 3 embedded figures

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[119] arXiv:astro-ph/0010119 [pdf, other]

Title: N-band Imaging of Seyfert Nuclei and the MIR-X-ray correlation

Alfred Krabbe (UCB), Torsten Boeker (ESA/STScI), R. Maiolino (Arcetri)

Comments: 31 pages, incl. 4 figures, uses AASTex. Replaced with accepted version after minor modifications. To appear in ApJ

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[120] arXiv:astro-ph/0010120 [pdf, other]

Title: Convective proton and He3 ingestion into helium burning: Nucleosynthesis during a post-AGB thermal pulse

Falk Herwig (1), Norbert Langer (2) ((1)University of Victoria, Canada, (2)Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, conference NIC2000, Aarhus, Denmark, to appear in Nucl. Phys. A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[121] arXiv:astro-ph/0010121 [pdf, other]

Title: Standard Cosmic Ray Energetics and Light Element Production

Brian D. Fields, Keith A. Olive, Michel Casse, Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam

Comments: 24 pages, LaTeX, uses aastex macros

Journal-ref: Astron.Astrophys.370:623-634,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[122] arXiv:astro-ph/0010122 [pdf, other]

Title: The Expansion of the X-ray Remnant of Tycho's Supernova (SN1572)

John P. Hughes (Rutgers University)

Comments: 4 pages, including 2 postscript figs, LaTeX, emulateapj. Accepted by ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[123] arXiv:astro-ph/0010123 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Kinematics of GRB980425 and its association with SN1998bw

Jay D. Salmonson (Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory)

Comments: 7 pages, including 1 figure. Submitted to ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[124] arXiv:astro-ph/0010124 [pdf, other]

Title: Liquid Xenon for a Very Sensitive WIMP Search

David B. Cline

Comments: 5 pages, including 6 figures; Presented at the Conference on Cosmology and Particle Physics, CAPP-2000 (Verbier, Switzerland, July 17-28, 2000) and to be published in the Proceedings by AIP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[125] arXiv:astro-ph/0010125 [pdf, other]

Title: ASCA Observation of an X-Ray-Luminous Active Nucleus in Markarian 231

Philip R. Maloney, Christopher S. Reynolds

Comments: 11 pages, 3 figures; to appear in ApJ Letters

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[126] arXiv:astro-ph/0010126 [pdf, other]

Title: Full-sky correlations of peaks in the microwave background

Alan F. Heavens, Sujata Gupta

Comments: submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.324:960,2001

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[127] arXiv:astro-ph/0010127 [pdf, other]

Title: NICMOS Observations of Low-Redshift Quasar Host Galaxies

K. K. McLeod (Wellesley College), B. A. McLeod (CfA)

Comments: To appear in ApJ, 28 pages including degraded figures. Download the paper with full-resolutio figures from this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[128] arXiv:astro-ph/0010128 [pdf, other]

Title: Molecular Gas and the Modest Star Formation Efficiency in the ``Antennae'' Galaxies: Arp~244=NGC 4038/39

Yu Gao (1, 2, 3), K.Y. Lo (3, 4), S.-W. Lee (2, 4), T.-H. Lee (4, 5) ((1) IPAC/Caltech, (2) Univ. of Toronto, (3) Univ. of Illinois, (4) IAA, Academia Sinica, (5) University of Calgary)

Comments: 31 pages including 3 postscript & 10 gif figures, final version to appear in ApJ, 2001 Feb. 10. A single .this http URL file can be down-loaded from: this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[129] arXiv:astro-ph/0010129 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffraction Limited Imaging of High Redshift Galaxies with Adaptive Optics

R.I. Davies, M. Lehnert, A.J. Baker, S. Rabien

Comments: 2 page contribution to IAU symposium 205 (Aug 2000) on 'Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions'

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[130] arXiv:astro-ph/0010131 [pdf, other]

Title: Spiral and irregular galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North - Comparison with early types and implications for the global SFR density

G. Rodighiero (1), G.L. Granato (2), A. Franceschini (1), G. Fasano (2), L. Silva (2) ((1) Dipartimento di Astronomia Universita' di Padova, (2) Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova)

Comments: 16 pages, 13 figures - Version accepted for publication in A&A

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[131] arXiv:astro-ph/0010132 [pdf, other]

Title: Envelope tomography of long-period variable stars: I. The Schwarzschild mechanism and the Balmer emission lines

R. Alvarez (1), A. Jorissen (1), B. Plez (2), D. Gillet (3), A. Fokin (4) ((1) Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, (2) GRAAL, France, (3) Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France, (4) Russia Academy of Sciences, Russia)

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, Latex, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics main journal. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[132] arXiv:astro-ph/0010133 [pdf, other]

Title: Comparison of Parallaxes from Eclipsing Binaries Method with Hipparcos Parallaxes

Irena Semeniuk (Warsaw University Observatory)

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, Latex+psfig. Acta Astronomica, 50, 381

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[133] arXiv:astro-ph/0010134 [pdf, other]

Title: Biconical Outflow in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 2992

S. Veilleux (1), P. L. Shopbell (1,2), S. T. Miller (1) ((1) University of Maryland, (2) Caltech)

Comments: 28 pages including 8 figures (2 ps, 6 jpeg), Latex w/ this http URL

Journal-ref: Astronomical Journal (January 1, 2001 issue)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[134] arXiv:astro-ph/0010135 [pdf, other]

Title: Blank field submm sources, failed stars, and the dark matter

A.Lawrence

Comments: 25 pages, 1 figure, to be published in Monthly Notices of the RAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 323 (2001) 147

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[135] arXiv:astro-ph/0010136 [pdf, other]

Title: Distance to the RR Lyrae Star V716 Monocerotis

D. W. Hoard, Andrew C. Layden, Jeremy Buss, Ricardo Demarco, Jenny Greene, Jessica Kim-Quijano, Alicia M. Soderberg

Comments: 9 pages including 2 figures and 2 tables; accepted by PASP

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[136] arXiv:astro-ph/0010137 [pdf, other]

Title: On the streaming motions of haloes and galaxies

Ravi K. Sheth (Fermilab), Antonaldo Diaferio (Torino), Lam Hui (Columbia/IAS), Roman Scoccimarro (IAS)

Comments: 10 pages, submitted to MNRAS

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 326 (2001) 463-472

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[137] arXiv:astro-ph/0010138 [pdf, other]

Title: Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Diamonds, and Fullerenes in Interstellar Space: Puzzles to be Solved by Laboratory and Theoretical Astrochemistry

K. Sellgren (1) ((1)Astronomy Dept., Ohio State University)

Comments: Spectrochimica Acta A, Feb. 2001, in press. 33 pages including 11 postscript figures, AASTeX format. Full postscript paper also available at this http URL

Journal-ref: AcSpe, 57, 627 (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph); Atomic and Molecular Clusters (physics.atm-clus); Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)

[138] arXiv:astro-ph/0010139 [pdf, other]

Title: Complex Phase Lag Behaviors of the 0.5 - 10 Hz QPOs in GRS 1915+105

D. Lin, I. A. Smith, E. P. Liang, M. Böttcher (Rice University)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in ApJL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[139] arXiv:astro-ph/0010140 [pdf, other]

Title: Automatic Shell Detection in CGPS Data

Sergey Mashchenko, Nicole St-Louis

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Interacting Winds from Massive Stars" (ASP Conference Series), eds. A. F. J. Moffat, and N. St-Louis

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[140] arXiv:astro-ph/0010141 [pdf, other]

Title: The Evolution of Population Gradients in Galaxy Clusters: the Butcher-Oemler Effect and Cluster Infall

E. Ellingson, H. Lin, H. K. C. Yee, R. G. Carlberg

Comments: ApJ, in press

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[141] arXiv:astro-ph/0010142 [pdf, other]

Title: The Shape and Orientation of NGC 3379: Implications for Nuclear Decoupling

T. S. Statler (Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA)

Comments: Astronomical Journal, accepted. 15 pages, incl. 5 figs, 1 table. AASTeX 4.0. Paper with better quality figures in PDF format at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[142] arXiv:astro-ph/0010143 [pdf, other]

Title: A simple algorithm for orbit classification

Eliza E. Fulton, Joshua E. Barnes

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. For a version formatted for 8.5x11 paper, visit this http URL

Journal-ref: Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 321 (2001) 507

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[143] arXiv:astro-ph/0010144 [pdf, other]

Title: Gas Dynamics in Galaxy Mergers

Joshua E. Barnes

Comments: 8 pages, 6 figures. To appear in Gas & Galaxy Evolution, J.E. Hibbard, M.P. Rupen, & J.H. van Gorkom, eds. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[144] arXiv:astro-ph/0010145 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamics of Stellar Collisions

Joshua E. Barnes

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures. To appear in Stellar Collisions, Mergers, and Their Consequences, M. Shara, ed. Also available at this http URL

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[145] arXiv:astro-ph/0010146 [pdf, other]

Title: Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies in the M81 Group Imaged with WFPC2

I.D. Karachentsev, V.E. Karachentseva, A.E. Dolphin, D. Geisler, E.K. Grebel, P. Guhathakurta, P.W. Hodge, A. Sarajedini, P. Seitzer, M.E. Sharina

Comments: 6 pages, 8 figures, A&A, Accepted, figures 1,2,3,4,5 in gif format to save space

Journal-ref: A&A 363,pp.108-116

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[146] arXiv:astro-ph/0010147 [pdf, other]

Title: Australian Cosmic Ray Modulation Research

M. L. Duldig (Australian Antarctic Division)

Comments: 47 pages, 37 figures, LaTeX, invited review, in press PASA 18(1). HTML version available at this http URL

Journal-ref: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (2001)

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[147] arXiv:astro-ph/0010148 [pdf, other]

Title: A group of galaxies around the giant spiral NGC 6946

I.D. Karachentsev, M.E. Sharina, W.K. Huchtmeier

Comments: 6 pages, 4 figures, figure 1 is only in jpeg format and figures 2,3 are only in gif format for space economy

Journal-ref: Astronomy & Astrophysics Vol. 362 Issue 2, pp.544-556

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[148] arXiv:astro-ph/0010149 [pdf, other]

Title: Properties of Simulated Magnetized Galaxy Clusters

Klaus Dolag

Comments: Contribution to "Constructing the Universe with Clusters of Galaxies", IAP 2000 meeting, Paris (France) July 2000, Florence Durret & Daniel Gerbal eds

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[149] arXiv:astro-ph/0010150 [pdf, other]

Title: The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. BVI Maps of Dense Stellar Regions. II. The Large Magellanic Cloud

A. Udalski, M. Szymanski, M. Kubiak, G. Pietrzynski, I. Soszynski, P. Wozniak, K. Zebrun

Comments: 12 pages, Latex. Only selected Figures are included in 'jpg' format. Full resolution Figures as well as the "Maps" are available from the OGLE Internet archive: this http URL or its US mirror this http URL

Journal-ref: Acta Astronomica, 50, 307

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)

[150] arXiv:astro-ph/0010151 [pdf, other]

Title: The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Stellar Distance Indicators in the Magellanic Clouds and Constraints on the Magellanic Cloud Distance Scale

A. Udalski

Comments: 26 pages, 8 figures (3 in 'jpg'format), LaTex

Journal-ref: Acta Astronomica, 50, 279

Subjects: Astrophysics (astro-ph)